"Death to My Hometown," seems to be an indictment of the financial community and its reckless gambling backed with the pensions and mortgages of the American middle-class, but more so is the American wet-dream of the middle and working class envisioned by Horatio Algers, where purity, luck, and racial determinism are the reasons for success.
Now, a study from the NPD Group points at smartphone camera use supplanting the need for a standalone camera, and a timely gamble back then could have made for smoother seas these past few years.
When I spoke to the show's writer/producer Sera Gamble back in October, she reiterated that this season, Dean is being "forced to question his place" in the world and his identity outside of simply being Sam's brother -- It's clear that the show is finally beginning to explore that territory.
Mr. King recalled that bars in West Memphis, like the 16th Street Club, featured gambling in back rooms.
Mr Ho began to build his gambling empire back in the early 1960s, when he bid for the Macau gaming monopoly that the Portuguese put up for grabs in what was then a sleepy colony, overshadowed by Hong Kong.
Senator Nick Xenophon and the Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie say they will use their key crossbench positions in the new parliament to put gambling reform back on the federal agenda.
We need to shackle Wall Street, to shrink the size and excess profits of finance, and force it away from its addiction to gambling and back to the essential business of investing in the real economy.
"Everyone is really anticipating this becoming a huge business," said Chris DeWolfe, a co-founder of the pioneering social site Myspace, who is throwing his energies into a gaming studio with a gambling component backed by, among others, the personal investment funds of Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, and Eric E. Schmidt, Google's executive chairman.
When Wall Street greed threatened to crash the economy, Obama's inner circle wrote blank checks to some of the worst offenders, establishing a precedent that the most risky global gambling is backed by the American taxpayer.
